Abstract—Hubs are critical elements that benefit networks by switching, distributing and concentrating flows. A hub location problem is common in a lot of industries, such as transportation networks, telecommunication networks, postal delivery networks and express shipment. Furthermore, a transportation network plays a vital role in each country. Nonetheless, during a day many factors such as traffic incidence, natural disasters cause some degradation in the transportation network. As a result, in this paper, we study a reliable hub covering location problem in a degradable transportation network to minimize the total transportation cost. For achieving near-optimal solutions for a real-sized problem an imperialism competitive algorithm (ICA) is proposed. Also the effectiveness of the proposed ICA is shown by some computational experiments. At last, conclusion is provided.